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St. Cyr, J. M. I. (John Mary Irenus), 1804-1883. J.M.I. St. Cyr correspondence, 1880.

Title: J.M.I. St. Cyr correspondence, 1880.

Two letters (1880 January 19 and 30) to John Wentworth in which St. Cyr describes his experiences as priest at the first Roman Catholic church in Chicago, Ill.

ArchivalResource: 2 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70980371 View

Wentworth, John, 1815-1888. Letters, 1847-1884.

Title: Letters, 1847-1884.

6 original letters: to Rev. D. J. Perry about constituent business (1847); to Col. William Schouler about exchanging newspapers (1853); 3 probably to his nephew Moses J. Wentworth on personal and legal matters (1876-1879); to J. Hebard Hannoford (1884) about finding a Congregational minister at North Reading, Massachusetts (1884); also 4 photostats of letters to William Wallace about efforts to get Wallace a pension (1851-1855).

ArchivalResource: 10 items

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/58967945 View

Adams, Charles Francis, 1807-1886. Letters of prominent American political and military figures, circa 1826-1884.

Title: Letters of prominent American political and military figures, circa 1826-1884.

Individual letters, mostly on routine business, written and signed by prominent Americans, including Charles Francis Adams, Robert Todd Lincoln, U.S. federal judge John Baxter, Mercer Beasley, Thomas Durfee, John W. Forney, attorney Isaac Hardeman, Congressman Frank Hereford, U.S. comptroller John Jay Knox, Congressman William McClelland, Civil War general Thomas H. Ruger, Congressman John Sergeant, U.S. Treasurer Francis E. Spinner, John Wentworth, and Civil War naval officer Henry Knox Thatcher. Also, a resolution by the General Assembly of the Rhode Island legislature concerning the construction of a harbor at Block Island, signed by secretary of state John R. Bartlett, 1868; and a vivid note from Henry R. Storrs on the celebrations at the inauguration of President Andrew Jackson, dated March 4 [1829].

ArchivalResource: 1 folder (0.1 cubic feet).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/777395456 View

Hay, John, 1838-1905. Correspondence, 1854-1914, "Watts" to "Willamov".

Title: Correspondence, 1854-1914, "Watts" to "Willamov".

Includes letters to Hay and to members of his family.

ArchivalResource: Approximately 6,000 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/86167697 View

Hardin, John J., 1810-1847. Hardin family papers, 1733-1943.

Title: Hardin family papers, 1733-1943.

Letters, diaries, account books, order books, muster rolls, and other papers related to the careers of several members of the Hardin family as lawyers, soldiers, real estate investors, and politicians, primarily in Kentucky (ca. 1786-1830) and Illinois (ca. 1831-1923), and to family relationships and roles of women. Early papers deal with property holdings, John Hardin's quartermaster's account book (1777-1779) during the Revolution, and the Spanish and American Indian opposition in Kentucky (1793-1794). Correspondents include Thomas Jefferson, Edmund Randolph, Anthony Wayne, and Henry Knox. Martin D. Hardin's papers concern his law practice at Frankfort (ca. 1800-1823), politics, and militia in the War of 1812. Correspondents included Henry Clay, Abraham Hite, James Morrison, and Charles A. Wickliffe. John J. Hardin's papers relate to the courtship of Sarah Ellen Smith; his law practice with partner, David A. Smith; Illinois politics and government, the Whig Party and post office patronage; the Black Hawk War, 1832 (including muster rolls and general orders); the Mexican War, 1845-1848 (raising of Illinois troops; Hardin's service with 1st Illinois Infantry and disputes with General John E. Wool); and the Mormon troubles, 1844-1845 (negotiations over the Mormon evacuation of Nauvoo, including Brigham Young letters). Incoming letters include frequent references to Stephen A. Douglas, and occasional ones to Abraham Lincoln and John Wentworth. Later papers and writings of Martin D. Hardin (1837-1923) and his sister, Ellen Hardin Walworth, discuss his life (including the Blake Expedition to Oregon in 1860), the 41st Pennsylvania Infantry during the Civil War; and genealogy and family history.

ArchivalResource: 4 oversize folders.

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Wentworth, John,. Scrapbook of Chicago history / compiled by John Wentworth.

Title: Scrapbook of Chicago history / compiled by John Wentworth.

Scrapbook of Chicago history, compiled by John Wentworth.

ArchivalResource: 4 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270717635 View

Washington, Peter Grayson, d. 1872. Papers of Peter Grayson Washington, 1846-1870.

Title: Papers of Peter Grayson Washington, 1846-1870.

Include two letters, 1846, from Thomas Hart Benton to Peter Grayson Washington, regarding a pay raise and a leave of absence for an employee; letter, 27 July 1852, from Alfred Conkling, Auburn, N.Y., to Peter Grayson Washington, Washington, D.C., regarding a subscription to a periodical; and two letters, 1853-1854, from John Wentworth, Washington, D.C., to Peter Grayson Washington, regarding executive appointments. Also include letter, 29 December 1854, from John M. Read, Philadelphia, Pa., to Peter Grayson Washington, Washington, D.C., regarding United States fiscal policy; letters, 1856-1865, from L. Quinton Washington to Peter Grayson Washington, regarding California and Kentucky politics, and loyalty oaths; and letter, 22 October 1856, from John B. Floyd, Abingdon, Va., to James Guthrie, requesting a continuance of a court case between the U.S. Treasury Department and Floyd's brother. Also include three letters, 18601-861, from Philip Allen, Providence, R.I., to Peter Grayson Washington, Washington, D.C., regarding politics in Kentucky, the possibility of a political solution to the Civil War, the possible dissolution of the Union, James Guthrie, and the evolution of secessionist sentiment; and two letters, July 1862, from Juan Napoleon Zerman to Peter Grayson Washington, regarding a military appointment. Also include letter, 8 June 1870, from Thomas J.D. Fuller, Washington, D.C., to Peter Grayson Washington, regarding restitution for real property seized during the Civil War; and two letters, January 1857, between Peter Grayson Washington and Socrates Maupin, University of Virginia, regarding an honorary appointment to the U.S. Mint and family matters. Also include miscellaneous correspondence, 1853-1867, of Peter Grayson Washington, regarding immigration from Canada, executive appointments, the political implications of federal construction projects, iron manufacturing interests' influence on U.S. politics, the settlement of a decedent's estate, and the Washington National Monument Society.

ArchivalResource: 25 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34566972 View

Wentworth, John, 1815-1888. Petition, 1836 June 30, to the Faculty of Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H.

Title: Petition, 1836 June 30, to the Faculty of Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H.

Requests reinstatement, after dismissal due to remarks derogatory of the faculty of Dartmouth College made at a public meeting.

ArchivalResource: 1 folded leaf ; 25 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/237342495 View

Herndon-Weik Collection of Lincolniana, circa 1824-1933

Title: Herndon-Weik Collection of Lincolniana circa 1824-1933

Collection composed of the papers of Abraham Lincoln, United States president, United States representative from Illinois, and lawyer; William Henry Herndon, Lincoln's law partner, collector, and biographer from Springfield, Illinois; and Jesse William Weik, lawyer of Greencastle, Indiana, and coauthor of Herndon Includes records (1933) of the Weik Manuscript Corporation and miscellaneous material collected chiefly by Herndon and Weik for use in writing Herndon's (1889). Lincoln. Lincoln: The True Story of a Great Life

ArchivalResource: 4,600 items; 36 containers; 10 linear feet; 15 microfilm reels

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Davis, David, 1815-1886. David Davis papers, 1815-1964 (bulk 1815-1886).

Title: David Davis papers, 1815-1964 (bulk 1815-1886).

Primarily copies of correspondence, legal documents, speeches, pamphlets, and newsclippings relating to Davis family matters or to Davis's career as a lawyer; a judge in the Eighth Judicial Circuit of Illinois, 1848-1862; Abraham Lincoln's campaign manager; Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, 1862-1877; and U.S. Senator, 1877-1883. Most materials were collected by Willard L. King while writing a biography of Davis. Also present are a few original Davis items plus correspondence, prepublication manuscript, and reviews relating to King's book, 1950s-1964. Topics of the Davis materials include social and economic conditions in Illinois; life in Bloomington, Ill., and family affairs; political parties, especially the Whig and Republican parties, nationally and in Illinois; presidential campaigns and elections (1856-1876); Mormons in Illinois; the Mexican War; Davis's circuit-riding relationship with Lincoln, his riding partner; the antislavery movement; the rivalry between Norman B. Judd and John Wentworth; the Lincoln-Douglas debates; newspaper activities in Missouri and Chicago during the 1860s; the Civil War and particularly Missouri during the war; Davis as the administrator of Lincoln's estate; and the selection of a successor to Chief Justice Chase. Correspondents include Davis's wife Sarah Walker Davis and his son George Perrin Davis, Orville Browning, Ambrose E. Burnside, Simon Cameron, Aaron Lucius Chapin, Salmon P. Chase, Henry Clay, Grover Cleveland, Henry Winter Davis, Theophilus Lyle Dickey, Stephen A. Douglas, Ninian Edwards, Jesse W. Fell, John C. Fremont, James A. Garfield, Ulysses S. Grant, John J. Hardin, James Harlan, Ozias M. Hatch, Rutherford B. Hayes, John F. Henry, William H. Herndon, Joseph Holt, Robert G. Ingersoll, Norman B. Judd, Ward Hill Lamon, Abraham Lincoln, Mary Todd Lincoln, Robert Todd Lincoln, Thomas Lincoln, Stephen T. Logan, J.E. McClure, Joseph Medill, Lambdin P. Milligan, Richard J. Oglesby, William W. Orme, Ebenezer Peck, Julius Rockwell, Winfield Scott, William H. Seward, Caleb Smith, Edwin M. Stanton, John T. Stuart, Noah H. Swayne, Leonard Swett, Samuel J. Tilden, Samuel H. Treat, Lyman Trumbull, John P. Usher, Clement L. Vallandigham, Elihu B. Washburne, Thurlow Weed, Gideon Welles, John Wentworth, Horace White, Henry Clay Whitney, and Richard Yates. Correspondence about an autobiography by Davis is filed in box 1, but a copy of the autobiography is not present. This autobiography was owned by J. Grant Burke of Washington, D.C. ca. 1975.

ArchivalResource: 1 oversize folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/712673728 View

French, Augustus C., 1808-1864. Papers, 1841-1852.

Title: Papers, 1841-1852.

300 letters from state financial agents in New York and London, England re: debt. 100 letters re: Illinois-Michigan Canal. 50 letters dealing with Illinois Central Railroad. 50 letters dealing with the St. Louis dike. 20 letters re: problems in Massac County. A series of letters dealing with administrative problems at the Jacksonville Asylum. Several letters re: violence at Bishop Hill colony including a sworn statement from the abused woman, who the troublemakers demanded be returned to her husband. Other topics include building a state university, housing women in the Alton prison, the sale of Quincy House, the return of a French-Negro kidnapped and taken to Missouri as a slave, Illinois as a place for German immigrants, David Dale Owens as head of the Geological Survey, Reverend Chiniquy and Canadian emigrants in Iroquois County, one letter from Dorothea Dix re: Alton Prison and the Jacksonville Asylum. Political commentary in many letters including those from John Wentworth, Sidney Breese, Stephen A. Douglas, Orlando B. Ficklin, Philip Fouke, Thomas L. Harris, John Hogan, William Jackson, Joel A. Matteson, John A. McClernand, Elam Rust, Peter Sweatt, James Shields, Lyman Trumbull, Elijah Wilcox, Timothy Roberts Young and C. Zarley.

ArchivalResource: .84 linear feet (2 boxes)

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Wentworth, John, 1815-1888. Letters, 1860-1861, to Richard Yates.

Title: Letters, 1860-1861, to Richard Yates.

Two letters from Wentworth to Yates, supporting Yates for governor of Illinois; one letter from Joseph Knox to Yates, with Wentworth's statement of agreement, discussing the need for regulations concerning the formation of companies of troops under acceptable officers.

ArchivalResource: 3 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/80527012 View

Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States Commandery of the State of Massachusetts Civil War collection, 1724-1933 (inclusive); 1861-1912 (bulk).

Title: Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States Commandery of the State of Massachusetts Civil War collection, 1724-1933 (inclusive); 1861-1912 (bulk).

A collection of images, manuscripts, and printed material, mostly relating to the Massachusetts soldiers and regiments in the American Civil War. Some material relates to other Union regiments and the Confederate States of America.

ArchivalResource: 47 linear feet (143 boxes, 2 volumes)

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Mackenzie, William Lyon, 1795-1861. Newspaper articles [microform] 1841-1860.

Title: Newspaper articles [microform] 1841-1860.

"Clippings from the Mackenzie-Lindsey Collection in the Ontario Archives relating to Mormons. No. 3275, (William Lyon Mackenzie was the first mayor of Toronto and leader of the Rebellion of 1837-38); Newspaper articles dealing with the Latter-day Saints in Nauvoo, Illinois, emphasizing the following areas: Joseph Smith's letter to John Wentworth on the origin, rise and beliefs of the Latter-day Saints in an article appearing in Chicago Democrat entitled, "The Origin of Mormonism"; additional clippings on the martydom of Joseph and Hyrum Smith entitled, "More from the Mormons" and "Further from the Mormons"; "Two Minutes In Jail" from the Nauvoo Neighbor; "The Mormons - Young Joe Smith Becomes 'Prophet, Seer and Revelator in Zion"; the activities of James Strang; from Harper's Weekly, "Brigham Young's Religion, Wealth, Wives, etc.", by Horace Greeley; article on "Artemus Ward Visits Brigham Young"; "Brigham Young on Women"; "Mormonism, The State and Prospects of Utah from The Seer" - Second Epistle of Orson Pratt; "The Murder of Parley Pratt, the Mormon Elder" by M'Lean; a lecture delivered by Josiah Quincy, Jr. of Boston entitled, "The Mormons and Their Leader"; "The Mormons, Progress and Policy of the Latter Day Saints" by Orson Hyde; "Mormon Marriages" - extracts from Brigham Young's speeches; "Mormon Marriage" from The Seer; "Mormon Enornmaties" from The Seer; "The Mormon Temple and Its' Builders; "Nauvoo Temple"; "Effect of Persecution - Deserted Temple in the West, A Lesson; "Utah Territory and Its Laws, Polygamy and Its License", a speech by Hon. J.S. Morrill of Vermont in the House of Representatives, Feb. 23, 1857; "Pictures of Mormon Life"; "Judicial Charge Against Polygamy - the United States Laws to be Enforced Againist It"; "Polygamy in Utah"; "Polygamy"; "Effects of Mormon Polygamy"; "Mormon Rascalities"; "Letter from Nauvoo - Course of the Mormons" by Orson Hyde; "An American Citizen's Appeal in Behalf of the Long Persecuted and Exiled Mormons" by Orson Pratt; "Nauvoo - Desolate Appearance of the City, &c." from Warsaw, St. Louis Republican September 29, 1846; "Mormon Affairs" by Illinoisan, March 8th 1845; "Affairs at Nauvoo" by Thomas Ford; "Nauvoo"; "The Mormons"; "The City of Nauvoo"; "The Mormons" from The Journal of Commerce; "The Mormons" from the St. Louis Republican; "From Council Bluffs - The Mormons, &c."; "Eternal Shame to Illinois" from Editor of The Tribune; "The Mormons - Their Persecutions, Sufferings and Destination" - letter to Horace Greeley November 20, 1846; "Beaver Islands"; "From Wisconsin - The Mormons" from Rochester Daily Democrat, July 8th 1846; "The Mormon Republic" by Brigham Young January 5, 1852; "The Mormons, Or Latter-Day Saints, in the Valley of the Great Salt Lake" by Lieut. J.W. Gunnison; "The Mormons at Their New Settlement"; "The Mormons" from the St. Louis Republican Oct. 20th, 1846.

ArchivalResource: Partial reel : microfilm ; 35 mm.

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Chase, Charles Parker, 1845-1922. Letter, 1891 November 26, Hanover, N.H., to Isaac W. Smith [n.p.].

Title: Letter, 1891 November 26, Hanover, N.H., to Isaac W. Smith [n.p.].

Information on donation made by John Wentworth. C.W. Spalding will work on defining the powers of the Treasurer.

ArchivalResource: 2 p. 22 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/2833667 View

Bradwell, Myra, 1831-1894. James and Myra Bradwell Papers, 1864-1884.

Title: James and Myra Bradwell Papers, 1864-1884.

Letters to husband and wife James and Myra Bradwell concern social invitations; the Committee on Arms, Trophies and Curiosities, Chicago Sanitary Fair, 1865; political and legal topics. Correspondents include Sidney Breese, James Harlan, John Marshall Harlan, John Blake Rice and John Wentworth.

ArchivalResource: 7 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/27418182 View

Aldrich, James Franklin, 1853-1933. James Franklin Aldrich papers, 1841-1932 (bulk 1876-1932).

Title: James Franklin Aldrich papers, 1841-1932 (bulk 1876-1932).

Correspondence, letter books, journals, essays, and certificates of James Franklin Aldrich. Correspondence and 2 books of letters (bound later), primarily incoming to J. Frank Aldrich; an 1876 journal of a trip through New Mexico and Arizona to select a site for surviving members of the 57th Illinois Infantry Veterans Volunteer Association; essays by Aldrich on the Republican Party, Abraham Lincoln, Chicago history, the Union League Club of Chicago, the Haymarket Square riot, the Presidential hopes of Thomas B. Reed in 1896, the War of 1898, and other reminiscences and commentaries; and certificates, mostly relative to Aldrich's career as a U.S. Representative (1893-97). Letterbook 2 includes letters requesting President McKinley to appoint Aldrich as Minister to Belgium. Also present in the collection are letters addressed to Francis T. Sherman concerning the Chicago Post Office and requests for patronage (1868-1870s) and certificates belonging to Sherman. Authors of letters to Aldrich or to his father, William Aldrich, include Dr. Frank Billings, John W. Gates, Robert Todd Lincoln, Gustavus W. Swift, Frank O. Lowden, Graham Taylor, Montgomery Ward; in letterbook 1: James G. Blaine, Frederick Douglass, Charles B. Farwell, John W. Gates, Julius S. Grinnell, John M. Harlan, William P. Kellogg, Joseph Medill, Thomas B. Reed, Horace M. Singer, and Bayard Taylor. Letterbook 2 includes a letter by Austin Blair to Abraham Lincoln (1861 Feb. 27) and the 1841 marriage certificate of Aldrich's parents William and Anna Mary (Howard) Aldrich. Other correspondents in the collection include J. Franklin Aldrich's daughter Martha, wife Mariska, and the Chicago Historical Society.

ArchivalResource: 1 oversize folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/713342212 View

Polk, James K. (James Knox), 1795-1849,. Petition : to James K. Polk, Washington, 1846 May 16.

Title: Petition : to James K. Polk, Washington, 1846 May 16.

Members of the Illinois congressional delegation request that Jacob B. Backenstos be appointed captain of a new regiment to be raised in their state. Signed by senators James Semple and Sidney Breese (whose name was later crossed out) and congressmen Stephen A. Douglas, John Wentworth, Orlando B. Ficklin, John A. McClernand (who later withdrew his name), Joseph P. Hoge, and Robert Smith. A note on the verso confirms that the appointment was granted.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.) ; 25 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122490258 View

Davis, David, 1815-1886. Correspondence, 1855-1886.

Title: Correspondence, 1855-1886.

Mostly letters from Davis to Oliver L. Davis of Danville, Illinois, discuss judicial matters and personal friends; also two letters to John M. Scott and a letter of sympathy to the widow of John T. Stuart. One letter describes hearing William G. (Parson) Brownlow give a speech.

ArchivalResource: 11 items

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/706817852 View

Butler, Horace, 1814-1861. Papers, 1794-1933.

Title: Papers, 1794-1933.

Correspondence, legal documents, receipts, Lake County court dockets, maps, programs, invitations and miscellaneous documenting Horace Butler's legal and political career as well as the lives of four generations of the Butler family.

ArchivalResource: 2.73 linear ft. (6 1/2 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/31156807 View

Harpel, Charles,. [Scrapbook containing obituaries of John Wentworth, etc. 1886-1901].

Title: [Scrapbook containing obituaries of John Wentworth, etc. 1886-1901].

Scrapbook compiled by Charles Harpel, containing obituary notices of John Wentworth, and other clippings relating to Chicago and Chicagoans, 1886-1901.

ArchivalResource: 1 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270729087 View